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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Alice Domurat DregerPublisher: Harvard University Press Imprint: Harvard University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.490kg ISBN: 9780674001893ISBN 10: 0674001893 Pages: 268 Publication Date: 01 March 2000 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Unknown Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsIn Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex , Alice Domurat Dreger looks at the debates concerning intersexed peole which circulated in the medical communities of France and Britain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In so doing, Dreger has also offered insight into our own fin-de-siecle quandaries about the limits of usefulness of the concepts of sex and gender as categorizations of human beings...Overall, Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex is an excellent book. -- Holly Devor Journal of Sex Research (01/01/1999) Traces the history of the biomedical treatment of hermaphrodites during what Dreger calls the Age of Gonads.. ..She offers the reader a complex and lucid account of the process by which hermaphrodites moved from a public space (some as performers in traveling circuses and shows) to a private space where all hermaphrodite identities became increasingly shaped and defined by physicians who gained in power and prestige by intervening in the lives of these individuals...Dreger makes a convincing argument for a new approach to individuals born with ambiguous genitalia.--Heather Harris Journal of the History of Biology Author InformationAlice Domurat Dreger is an American historian of medicine and science and an award-winning writer. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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